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The school is a full-day, year-round private school for TK-8. It is located at 455 Arkansas St., San Francisco, CA 94107, in the Potrero Hill neighborhood. The campus includes a garden where gardening and cooking classes take place. The program features weekly field trips to parks, museums and workplaces and visits to Florence Fang Community Farm every three weeks, with an annual 3-day, 2-nights nature ranch retreat. There are hands-on science, arts, and physical education offerings, including automotive classes and music and visual arts programs, with technology-enabled learning for students.
The school prioritizes English, Math, and Chinese, taught with hands-on learning and personalized support. English includes a daily school-wide reading class grouped by proficiency, with guidance from teachers and peers, and an AI-enabled platform to reinforce grammar and reading comprehension. Math is taught in Chinese for younger students, with an AI-based platform for self-paced learning and weekly teacher-led reviews; older students also participate in project-based and concept review math. Chinese is taught daily with Mandarin and Pinyin, and older students learn Chinese culture in English while younger students learn math and science in Chinese. The school organizes students into Lower (TK–2), Middle (3–5), and Upper (6–8) cohorts, and includes activities such as sentence diagramming, cursive handwriting, and a mix of traditional and modern learning approaches, with cell phones prohibited on campus and laptops allowed only during class time.
The school runs Summer School + Camp (TK-8) and Academic After School, with a Free Academic Assessment available. Community programs include open campus activities, on-site and neighborhood engagement, and weekly field trips, along with visits to Florence Fang Community Farm every three weeks and an annual retreat to a nature ranch. Visual arts, music (piano, singing, percussion, and Chinese instruments), and physical education are part of enrichment, with gardening and cooking classes teaching collaboration and responsibility. Technology literacy, programming and robotics are introduced to students starting in kindergarten, and after-school programs extend learning beyond the core day.
Bertrand D Hsu American & Chinese Bicultural Academy is a nonprofit private school serving TK–8 in San Francisco. Located at 455 Arkansas Street in Potrero Hill, campus provides a day program for ages 3–14 with class sizes under 20. The bespoke curriculum blends East and West, combining Chinese discipline and academic rigor with American creativity and independence. English, math, and Chinese are core subjects taught by teachers, with younger students learning math and science in Chinese and older students studying Chinese culture in English. Daily Mandarin instruction accompanies immersion in Chinese history, philosophy, poetry, and calligraphy. The school emphasizes project-based and AI-enabled practice and personalized support. Facilities include a garden for gardening and cooking classes, weekly field trips to parks and museums, and visits to Florence Fang Community Farm, and a 3-day nature ranch retreat. The founder and Head of School is Ann Hsu; it operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
